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The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is closing an investigation from 2022 into the GM-owned robotaxi company. The agency was looking into Cruise vehicles that stopped unexpectedly, including three times where they were struck from behind.
From the report (included in full below):
Based on ODI’s analysis of immobilization data, the potential safety risk is heavily dependent on the context of the immobilized vehicle’s location, detectability of the vehicle due to hazard lights automatically engaging, and none of the immobilization incidents reviewed resulted in a crash or injuries.
ODI also analyzed hard braking data which included 7,632 hard braking events commanded by the Cruise ADS. These events were…
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The US government has charged a member of a Russian ransomware group known as Karakurt, as reported earlier by BleepingComputer. In a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Justice claims 33-year-old Deniss Zolotarjovs of Moscow, Russia, conspired to commit money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
As outlined in the criminal complaint, the FBI alleges Karakurt stole and threatened to auction sensitive data from several companies throughout the US. The complaint pins Zolotarjovs as the hacking group’s negotiator of “cold case extortions,” in which victims don’t respond with a ransom following an attack, according to BleepingComputer.
Karakurt, which has been linked to the prolific Russian ransomware group Conti, carried out a…
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Thinking of buying a secondhand Peloton machine? Well, US and Canadian customers who do will now have to pay a one-time $95 (or $125 CAD) “used equipment activation fee.”
Peloton made the announcement in its Q4 2024 shareholder letter. The fee doesn’t apply to refurbished models you buy directly from Peloton or its third-party distribution partners. The company clarified in an earnings call that this fee will be applied to folks who buy a Peloton machine directly from a previous owner.
The official reason why is so that new members “receive the same high-quality onboarding experience Peloton is known for.” That may be true, but the fee is also a way for Peloton to get a cut of secondary hardware sales. In today’s earnings call, the…
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Microsoft patched the BitLocker recovery page issue in Windows with the August 2024 security update. Surprisingly, the update introduces a bug that affects all the dual-boot PC with Linux. Users can no longer boot to their Linux installation and encounter an error message.
Microsoft updated its official health page to report this newfound problem with the update. The reason behind this problem is the Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) setting that the company introduced with the update. SBAT’s function is to block outdated and unsecured boot managers.
But it didn’t recognize systems with dual-boot configuration and blocks them. It isn’t the intended behavior of the feature, which now obstructs users from accessing their Linux operating system with the following error message:
“Verifying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation. Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policy Violation.”
This bug doesn’t spare any Windows OS versions or editions. So, all supported Windows 11, 10, and Server versions that use Linux in dual-boot will face this issue. Thankfully, the Windows OS boots without any issues.
There’s a silver lining if you haven’t applied the update on their PC. Microsoft suggests a registry tweak that will prevent SBAT from blocking the Linux access on your PC. Here’s how to do it:
Open the Command Prompt with administrative rights.
Type the following command and press Enter:
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSecureBootSBAT /v OptOut /d 1 /t REG_DWORD
Close the Command Prompt window.
Once Microsoft fixes the issue, you’ll have to delete this registry key to ensure that future SBAT updates are installed on your PC.
If you applied the update on your PC, then the only option is to remove it. You can do so by navigating to Settings > Windows Update > Update history > Uninstall updates. Find the most recent update and click on the Uninstall button to remove it from your PC. Or you can use the WinRE page to remove updates.
Windows 11 doesn’t have any other known issues except this one after the August 2024 security update. But Windows 10 still has the profile picture bug, which produces the error code 0x80070520 whenever you try to change the profile picture.
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August 2024 security update wrecks dual-boot on Windows 10 and 11 but you can do something about it using Registry editor.
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